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I guess you can't reach up there, can you? i'll get them. >> you had to point that out, didn't you, partner? >> i can't help it. i call them like i see them. >> by 10:00 a.m., search teams had confiscated several homemade weapons, including sharpened bed springs and blades. the search was a success. and as a result, several prisoners will be prosecuted. coming up, inmates and the politics of staying alive on the exercise yard. but first, a provocative and personal look at how inmates remain sane in the six by nine foot world of a prison cell. they share how they cook, wash clothes, and eve...

Because i think it could -- >> i feel just fine. >> because you get all these thoughts rushing in your head. >> it's like this -- it's like this. the guy next door could be on a medication. and then they'll keep me around him for three months. and then i'll get out of prison. and i'll be him. little do i know he's a psycho killer. and i'm not. next thing you know, i'm running around with psycho killer. and they think i need medication. i don't need medication. >> under law in california state prisons, a psychiatrist cannot force drugs on any patient unless that patient meets certain criteria f...

When an inmate arrives at san quentin, he quickly learns that he needs to find a gang or a group with whom he can affiliate himself. even if he is not a gang banger on the outside, not belonging means going it alone. and, more importantly, a serious loss of protection. on the exercise yard, there are no bars keeping rival gangs apart, only a desire to carve out their own place in the sun. >> this is the lower yard. and the inmates segregate themselves out here. and the reason being that the gangs want it that way.

Heavy. if we allowed things lineback that to continue, what's going to happen is they're going to start fighting. the possibility of other people getting involved. '. >> though it ended peacefully, our cameras encountered a different situation in california's pelican bay prison. >> having a routine yard release. >> our producer was conducting an interview while a second camera was shooting routine footage on the yard below. then suddenly -- >> there in that building. >> our camera is searching for any signs that the trouble is spreading outside to the exercise yard. >> so this is an actual ala...

Some of the most violent gang attacks have taken place here at california state prison corcoran's security housing unit, or shu. we visited the shu's now vacant exercise yard, which has been the scene of some of the prison's most brutal violence. ♪ >> i can see why fights went on in that exercise yard.